This three-disc collection is an entertaining, intelligent portrait of Jack Paar doing what he did best. Witty and well informed, emotive and spontaneous, Paar was the embodiment of "Smart Television," hired in 1957 to host the Tonight Show on NBC and virtually inventing the late night talk show format of monologue, interview, and guest performance. After five years of battling with his own network over the content of his show, Jack left the Tonight Show to host the primetime Jack Paar Program before bowing out of television altogether in 1965. This set contains the PBS documentary Smart Television: The Best of Jack Paar; complete interviews with Richard Nixon, Muhammad Ali, Liberace, Billy Graham, Barry Goldwater, and Robert Kennedy; Jack's half-dozen favorite monologues; and three full episodes featuring Bette Davis, Jonathan Winters, Richard Burton, Bill Cosby, Judy Garland, and Robert Morley.